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You get what you fucking deserve.
Russia's government is a vicious brutal kleptocracy which regularly murders journalists and dissidents, where everyone is on the take, and everyone lies. It is walking in Hitler's foot-steps, and Ukraine is just one more in the series of wars Putin hoped to wage to restore Katharina the Great's empire (which included Finland and half of Poland). Lacking any international support he could not wipe out smaller countries (Chechnya, then georgia, then Syria, then Crimea, then Donbas, then all Ukraine) nearly as fast or as effectively as Hitler, whom Putin clearly studied in detail. His effort to recreate the Hitler youth (nashiy) is not lost on some of us nor his use of the exact same methods, the big lie, propaganda, and war after war. Putin is very smart when he scapegoats Jews, which he or more usually his proxies do all the time. Cleverer than Hitler but also a genocidal war criminal, just look at Syria and Ukraine.
Putin is like a dangerous poisonous snake? What do we do to dangerous poisonous snakes?
Accurate timely intelligence is exactly like having a good pair of eyes. And, bad intelligence, a bad network for acquiring quantitative facts and qualititative intentions motives and planned actions is like being blind.
Before we misplace any sympathy on the snake being blinded and killed: no one made Putin invade Ukraine. No one tied him up in a basement to be tortured and then taken out and shot dead because there must be no witnesses. No one made Putin commit genocide and war crimes in Chechnya, Syria, Ukraine or anywhere else.
Sometimes States and people can learn from Other People’s mistakes…
鹧鸪天.桂花 Partridges in the heavens, exquisite flowers
原文:暗淡轻黄体性柔。情疏迹远只香留。何须浅碧深红色,自是花中第一流。
Light, limpid, pale yellow, soft bodied
The tracks of love are far, only the fragrance remains
How is it that shallow blue and deep red
are the most current of Chinese flowers in one's midst?
The plum tree, jealous; the chrysanthemum, shy.
画阑开处冠中秋。
The painting on the curtained door opens, crowning mid autumn
骚人可煞无情思,
The flirtatious poet can be a heartless Spirit.
何事当年不见收。
How is it in those years then there was no end of affairs seen?
“We are not their prey so it is very unlikely they will attack us unless we provoke them.”
Гена! Крокодил Гена! Привеет!
Смерть тебе!